Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Saaaweeeet!

In today's KC Star
Old License plate MapImage by Whirling Phoenix via Flickr

The little town (4,000) of Sugar Creek has invested in a camera to be used to catch speeders in the burg.  Citations (non-moving) will be issued to the vehicle based on the license plate id.  Could be a trend in the metro.  Productivity of our own police force has not been scrutinized, at least publicly at BOA meetings, in the past couple of years.  Gone are the days when Clark and Rittenhouse raised questions about who was and who wasn't handing out "green stamps".  Rumor has it the recently departed full time officer might have been too aggressive in enforcing the law.  The department keeps the stats, so month to month and year over year numbers are available.  Our notorious speeder Merlin keeps his motor running on Potomac Speedway, maybe we should do a pilot and test a camera out.  I say this with great trepidation as we have a household with one teen driver, soon to be joined by a 2nd.  WLIC has RoboCall, maybe we should have RoboCam?


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